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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
-------the conversation and subject, and you are so right-on. I love that place. If you think that the Laguna Salada is fasinating during the flood,
you have got to get into the delta country, especially the portion below Yuri-Muri. |
Does any water get into
the gulf anymore?
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Barry A.
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bancoduo-----
I have been away from that country for some time, but my educated guess is, NO. Normally, what little water even gets into Mexico (by treaty
commitment) is quickly sopped up by the huge ag. complex in the Mexicali Valley (Upper delta region). This is what happens 95% of the time.
However, during wet years, like in the very late 70's and very early 80's, there is no way that the reservoirs and water allotments can absorb all the
Colorado system runoff, and then it does reach the Gulf, big-time. When this happens the delta "flowers", and the Gulf is recharged with nutrients,
but this seldom happens anymore, unfortunately.
Perhaps others on this board can give a more up-to-date report.
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tehag
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Laguna
Not too far off subject, I hope. There is an excelent book on the natural and political dynamics of a large part of the Colorado River Delta: Red
Delta, Author: Charles Bergman, Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing. Published in 2002. A good addition to anyone's Baja book shelf.
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The Colorado Delta
For a Historical look, An excellent book is "The Colorado Delta" by Godfrey Sykes, 1937. Though out of print, the book is available "used" online
with prices ranging in the $30-40, which makes the copy I "liberated" from the Palm Springs Library for $25.00 a good deal. The book includes
numerous Black/White photos of the Colorado river during the flooding that created the Salton Sea. Also, an early photo of San Felipe at which time
it was captioned as the Southern Terminus of the Colorado Delta. Of course, after the daming of the Colorado, the Delta has moved far Northward.
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Bill, how about sharing some of those photos here?
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Photos
I'll see how well they scan. They are old B/W photos. Right now I'm in El Norte for a week or so and the book is in Baja.
My return date is unsure at this moment because 5 miles North of the El Chinero checkpoint at 60 mph on Tuesday, I lost the Tread Cap on my Driver
Front tire taking out the Fender Well Liner, part of the front bumper, my drivers side step, etc.
Stuff happens.
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Barry A.
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MrBillM------and the make of the failed tire was????
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Failed Tire
The tires are Liberator (produced by BFG) LT245R75/16AT.
A minute before the failure, if I had been asked to evaluate those tires, I would have said they were excellent. I bought a set of (5) and rotated
all five every 10K miles. They just recently reached 40K miles and still had good tread and Zero cracking in the sidewalls. I pay particular
attention to cracking because the original New OEM Goodyear tires developed severe cracks in the sidewall adjacent to the rim at 23K miles. Each
time, before I head to or from Baja, I check the air pressure and inspect the tire condition. It isn't even likely that there would have been a
defect on the inside of the tread that I missed since the tire still has almost all of its tread on the inside. The tread obviously peeled from the
outside edge. Very Strange. This is the first time in 45 years of driving that I've lost a tread and in those early years I bought a lot of retreads
and ran the tread bare.
The irony is that I had planned to buy new tires on this trip North. That's guaranteed now along with quite a few other parts.
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Barry A.
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Tires can be really strange-------
-----I had a practically new Michelin all terrain tire blow up under my F-250 while it was sitting in the driveway. Of course it was under warrantee,
but still, that was really strange.
Manufacturing defect. You just never know, for sure.
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A good book on the Delta region of the Colorado River is A RIVER NO MORE by Fradkin, Philip L.
A naturalist, in the late '70's he took a canoe down as far as he could but was blocked by the mud flats - the river was no more, and did not reach
the Gulf.
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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What time of year does it bloom there?
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Barry A.
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Synch------
------does what "bloom" there???
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